C is for Collaboration

It was an unlikely combination.

A Tai Chi teacher taking his teaching online and an indie musician with a passion for acid jazz.

Curious Collaboration

When musician Jason Newton (aka Pearl Viper) approached my other half, Paul Read in his incarnation as the Tai Chi anti-guru Teapotmonk, to ask whether he could sample his voice, a very curious collaboration began.

The result, a year later, was a series of 3 very unusual EP's in which Jason cleverly sampled Paul's Tai Chi podcasts and created a set of distinctive and very moody backing tracks to complement them.

The whole is substantially greater than the sum of its parts.
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Listen to the result and hear for yourself!
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(If you like this, get the full album!)

What happens when two very different creative individuals come together to collaborate on a project?

What possibilities and potentials are opened up by the stimulation of working with someone who specialises in a completely dissimilar creative discipline?

What might you learn from exploring this kind of experience in your own discipline?

How might you grow?

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